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During the Spanish Civil War, the battle for the defense of Madrid attracted international attention. It was on the streets of the capital where the unprofessional republican troops first managed to stop the best units of the Spanish army, while German aircraft put into practice bombing tactics that would later use during World War II. The control of urban hydrogeography in Madrid played a key rol
“Liquid assets”: Coastal wetlands, regional parks, and the protection of Mediterranean deltas
After a century of accelerating drainage, in the 1960s coastal wetlands became the object of unprecedented protection campaigns around the world. This paper compares the history of three successful cases of coastal wetland protection in the Mediterranean between the 1960s and 1980s: the Rhône (France), Po (Italy), and Ebro (Spain) River deltas. As most of the coast of Mediterranean Europe, these t
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Potash Extraction and Historical Environmental Conflict in the Bages Region (Spain)
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Problematising Self-Sufficiency. A Historical Exploration of the "Autarky" Concept
An interdisciplinary framework for navigating social–climatic tipping points
To effectively navigate out of the climate crisis, a new interdisciplinary approach is needed to guide and facilitate research that integrates diverse understandings of how transitions evolve in intertwined social–environmental systems. The concept of tipping points, frequently used in the natural sciences and increasingly in the social sciences, can help elucidate processes underlying major socia
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Redrawing the Hydrosocial Cycle Through Treated Wastewater Reuse in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona
Increasing economic, social and environmental limits to the development of conventional water supply sources have shifted water resource frontiers to alternative sources, most notably desalination and wastewater reuse. In the past few years, critical scholarship has been prolific in its exploration of how desalination may redraw the hydrosocial cycle in different geographies; wastewater reuse, how
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Televising the Space Race in Francoist Spain: Sebastià Estradé and the “Friends of Outer Space” (1967-1969)
In the context of the space race, space science became an area of collaboration between the Spanish dictatorship and the United States of America during the 1960s. The Francoist regime leveraged its collaboration in the space race as an internal tool for political legitimization. This article examines the role of science popularization in this legitimization process by focusing on the TV show Amig
Beyond “Socially Constructed” Disasters: Re-politicizing the Debate on Large Dams through a Political Ecology of Risk
© 2016 The Center for Political Ecology. Questions of dam safety and hazard potential most often do not take center-stage in contestations and articulations concerning large dams. Through a comparative study of two of Europe’s most emblematic dam disasters–Vajont (Italy) and Ribadelago (Spain)–and the ongoing conflict over the safety of the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project in Northeast India,
Political Ecology in Spain
An exploration of how writers, artists, and filmmakers expose the costs and contest the assumptions of the Capitalocene era that guides readers through the rapidly developing field of Spanish environmental cultural studies.